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J. F. DURHAM.

WATER BLBVATOR.

No. 595,153. PatentedDeo. 7,1897.

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JOIIN F. DURHAM, OF CALDVELL, IDAHO, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTIIS TO PERRYA. GROVES AND EDWTARD D. WVOOD, OF SAME PLACE, AND `WILLIAM II. MARTIN,OF SILVER CITY, IDAHO.

VVATlER-ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,153, dated December'7, 1897.

Application filed December 23, 1896. Serial No. 616,803. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHN F. DURHAM, a citi Zen of the United States,residing at Caldwell, in the county of Canyon and State of Idaho, haveinvented a new and useful VateiElevator, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to contrive some inexpensive mechanismwhereby the water of a river or other natural source 0f supply can belifted to a sluice-box or other waterway, from whence the same may thenbe distributed to wherever wanted for mining or irrigating purposes.This I accomplish by the mechanism illustrated in the annexed drawings,in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 isan end elevation; and the group of views Figs. 4 and Fig. 5 are detailsof construction, which will be more fully described in the body of thisspecilication.

The numerals designate the parts referred to in the description of myinvention.

The horizontal timbers l, l, 1", 1, 1d, and 1Q, having mounted thereonthe inclined timbers E2, 2, 2b, 2C, 2d, and 2C, and the upright timbers3 3 constitute the support or frame in which my invention is mounted.These parts are rmly united and the two uprights 3 3fL and 3b 3C haverespectively mounted on their tops a pair of caps 4 4 and 4b 4, each ofsuch pairs of caps being united bya block 5 5, provided with a threadedvertical aperture in which depend the adjusting-screws 6 6, whichsupport from their lower ends the adjustable bearings of the large wheel7. The latter is stronglybuilt and carries on its periphery an endlessseries of tubular buckets S, such buckets being constructed in the formof a V, so as to admit and discharge water from either one or both oftheir open ends.

On the shaft D of the wheel 7 is rigidly mounted a gear-wheel 10, theteeth or cogs of which mesh with the endless screw l1, the shaft 13 ofwhich is journaled in the bearings 12 12, mounted on an extension fromthe adjustable bearings in which is journaled the wheel 7, and at theend of such shaft 13 is rigidly mounted the sprocket-wheel 14. To thissprocket-wheel the operative power is transmitted by means of an endlesssprocketchain. The operatin g power may consist of horse, steam, orother suitable power.

In the group of views Fig. 4 is shown a side and end elevation and planof the adjustable bearings for the wheel 7, as seen from the drivingside. Such bearings consist of the upper box 15, provided with front andback flanges 15rb 15b, embracing the uprights 3 3, the upper half of thebox l5 being provided with a socket 1U, in which to insert and by whichto hang such bearings from the foot of the ad j Listing-screw 6, thebase of such screw being provided with a flange or enlargement, which isinserted into the enlargement of such socket 16, and the upper and lowerhalves of such box 15 being united by bolts l5, the connection 17, andthe block 18, the latter also having iianges 1S 18b for embracing theuprghts 3 3 and carrying the boxes 12 and 12a, in which the shaft of thescrew 13 is journaled. Thus by means of the adjusting` screw 6 thebearing on the driving side may be adjusted to a suitable height,thereby lifting or lowering the wheel 7, as may become necessary withthe rise and fall of the water. The bearing 20 for the opposite end ofthe shaft of the wheel 7 is like the box 15, and the adj Listing-screw 6is connected with such opposite bearing in the same way as has beendescribed of the parts on the driving side, the adjustment of the screw6 being made to conform with that of the screw 6.

The buckets 8 may be provided with small apertures 19 to permit theescape of the air contained in such buckets while filling with Water.

My invention operates as follows: The frame of my water-lift is, in therst place, firmly set in the bed of the river or watersource, andthereupon the same is connected with the power driving the bucket-wheel7 in the direction indicated by the arrow seen in Fig. l. It will beobserved that any lurch of my invention, either to the one or the otherside, caused by a shift in the bed on which the same is mounted, willnot aifect its operating, for the power-transmitting means will IOO 'adapt themselves or may be adapted to any position. The Wheel 7 in itsrevolutions will dip the buckets into the Water, there to fillthemselves, and thereupon. elevate the lled buckets to the top of theWheel, and in the ascent the buckets will empty the Water they hold intoany suitable receptacle or receptacles which may be disposed at thesides of l the Wheel Where the buckets discharge.

Wheel and suitable means for driving the same, said Wheel having aperipheral series of buckets, said buckets each consisting ofcylindrical or tubular sections arranged obliquely to the Wheel andmeeting at the central plane thereof, substantially as described.

2. A Water-elevator comprising a Water- Wheel and suitable -means fordriving the same, said Wheel having a peripheral series of buckets, saidbuckets each consisting of cylindrical or tubular sections arranged ob.

liquely to the Wheel and meeting at the central plane thereof, and saidbuckets having an air-outlet at the apex, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence oftwo Witnesses.

J OI-IN F. DURI-IAM. Witnesses:

GEO. W. HAZEN, T. J. GEISLER.

